Data Council
- Organizer
- Data Council (Hephaestus Group LLC); founder Pete Soderling
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- aicouncil.com
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- Austin, United States + 6 other cities
- Topics
- Data engineeringGenerative AIMachine learningWarehouse & lakehouseAnalytics engineeringStreamingGovernance & qualityData science
Started 2016 as DataEngConf (NYC); renamed Data Council in 2019, when it ran SF, Singapore, Barcelona and NYC editions. 2020: SF went online, Barcelona/NYC/Southeast Asia were cancelled; no edition took place in 2021 (planned SF/SE Asia/Barcelona 2021 and Austin Jan 2022 were postponed). Austin 2022-2024 at UT's AT&T Conference Center, Oakland 2025, then renamed AI Council (announced Dec 2025) for SF 2026. Social accounts are the conference's own; other_social holds the older Data Council-branded accounts.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
7 of 9 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23–24, 2027 | AI Council 2027 | San Francisco, United States | Announced | — | — | — |
| May 12–14, 2026 | AI Council 2026 | San Francisco, United States | 1,500 | 28 | 112 | |
| Apr 22–24, 2025 | Data Council 2025 | Oakland, United States | 1,000 | 35 | 123 | |
| Mar 26–28, 2024 | Data Council Austin 2024 | Austin, United States | — | 17 | 98 | |
| Mar 28–30, 2023 | Data Council Austin '23 | Austin, United States | — | 34 | 102 | |
| Mar 23–24, 2022 | Data Council Austin 2022 | Austin, United States | — | 34 | 64 | |
| Oct 2–3, 2020 | Data Council Barcelona 2020 | Barcelona, Spain | Cancelled | — | — | — |
| Jul 22–23, 2020 | Data Council SF 2020 (online) | — | Online | — | — | 19 |
| 2020 | Data Council Southeast Asia 2020 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Cancelled | — | — | — |
| 2020 | Data Council New York City 2020 | New York, United States | Cancelled | — | — | — |
| Nov 12–13, 2019 | Data Council New York City 2019 | New York, United States | — | 18 | 38 | |
| Oct 2–3, 2019 | Data Council Barcelona 2019 | Barcelona, Spain | — | 4 | 33 | |
| Jul 17–18, 2019 | Data Council Singapore 2019 | Singapore, Singapore | — | 6 | 16 | |
| Apr 17–18, 2019 | Data Council San Francisco 2019 | San Francisco, United States | — | 11 | 47 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 2 of 14 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- Coalesce0.17
- Data Outpost0.17
- AI Engineer0.15
- OpenXData0.13
- Iceberg Summit0.13
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 143 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Startup
- Other / unspecified